I play this game for almost two years. It evolved through most of parts, but some areas needs rehauling because people just quit playing them. Here are the areas:1. In over a year did not see any new sharpshooting upgrades. Some people joined the game for it and quit when they finished all levels.2. Ancient tombs. The rewards are so pitiful once you maxed those levels that most of people quit playing it. 3. Mermaids quests. Really, they are still looking for lumber and sulphur? Who the needs those anymore? They can be exchanged to RSS, but the feature can be tailored for higher levels to gather some this else, such as advanced scrolls, or green gems.3. KvK. Many kingdoms stopped playing the feature or make deals to keep that crown. In reality, the rewards is pitiful when you actually lose troops during this game that are expensive to replace. The game offers you to get 45k troops for free, but when you lose 600k to a million t12 troops even with a deal in place many would say pass, let the opponent take the center. If we were only to get our troops back at the end of KvK, that might revigorate that game.

It starts out good, there are challenges and goals to complete and you get bonuses for completing them. Then as you progress there are less goals, less rewards, it’s takes longer to accomplish anything, this building will be upgraded in 3 days 18 hours. The stronger you get the more you get attacked, and they kill all you troops and steal all your resources and yet your wall protecting your kingdom has little damage done to it. So then you need resources to repair and upgrade your wall and the rest of your kingdom, heal your troops and and train more and you have none. So you wait for you farms and mines to collect more resources other kingdoms will attack you and steal your resources. When I saw you will get attacked I am talking about over 50 times in 30 minutes by the same person. Other apps have a limit as to how many times you can attack the same kingdom in a certain time period this app does not, I went from over 60 million grain to 1 million because I got attacked 52 times by one person and I need 102 million to upgrade my stronghold.The part that really freaks me out is that if I copy say a web address to text to someone and then open the app I get a message saying that it would like to paste what I copied from this other app. I don’t know why I has auto-access to what I copied and tries to paste it but that makes me uncomfortable.

Yes, it can be expensive; yes, flaws are slow to be corrected; yes, the devs are constantly adjusting rewards mostly on their favor. However, you can progress without investing huge sums if money or even any money…it is just very slow. If you are in a good alliance those who choose to advance to the higher levels are looking for ways the lower strongholds can be helpful in earning event points and supporting them for the advancement of the alliance and kingdom. One of the keys to being engaged is to participate in the alliance chat…ask questions, make friends, encourage a camaraderie among alliance members…celebrate everyone’s achievements. I happen to be in a great alliance where powerful strongholds help and recognize the value smaller strongholds. So, along with the devs interest in making money which is probably inherent in most similar games, I find the support and camaraderie among the alliance members through the chat feature a positive.

The game is free to play but pay to win. My friend spent $11,000 on this game in just 2 months time. You would think this would get you to the very best of everything but not even close. Yes you can enjoy the game for free but they quickly make the game harder and harder to play and impossible to compete. 7 months into playing we just had our first fair battle against another server. And that was because 2 of our players have spent enough money to buy a really nice car just to play this game. You can level up your equipment but only so far without spending money. The weapon alone cost around $1,600 for the 2nd to the last upgrade. And there are 6 pieces of equipment to upgrade. Then on your heroes each one has 6 pieces of gear to upgrade. Gold is the best gear and it costs around $500 to get each piece. The developers also do not listen to your suggestions and submitting a ticket means nothing because they will do nothing about your needs. Servers die quickly as everyone realized how impossible it is to grow to a competitive level or get fair fights in events. It’s quite often that we get matchups that are like putting 8 year old football players against nfl professionals. This game has so much potential but it will take the developers caring for it to be worth it.